4Jan
Of course it’s the start of a new year and up pop all the posts about new resolutions, reflections on the past year and predictions for the year ahead. Seeing so many articles over the past few days predicting what will be coming in 2011 I found myself wondering if these are actually worth reading at all.
A note
I was asked in December if I would write a post like this detailing the upcoming trends of Web Design in 2011. At the time I declined for a few reasons but not because of a dislike for these posts. I would have loved to have written the article at the time. But time has a way of changing your perspective.
Also if you’ve written such a post I apologise if this offends, it’s not my intention.
Continue reading “Web Predictions for 2011″
2Jan
Last year I gave a quick overview of the last decade and then a bit of a roundup of my site. This year I’m being much more lazy and I’m simply going to list my three favourite websites I built in 2010.
At a rough guess I’ve probably does some work on at least 50 different websites, some just small tweaks to existing sites, some blogs and other full redesigns. These three sites are the latter, not only designed but also developed by myself.
Continue reading “A look back on 2010″
18Oct
At least once in a designers life they will work tirelessly on a design that will never see the light of day. For whatever reason the final website will not use the design you have lovingly crafted over many hours. It may be that you have to create a new design, the client provides the design or the client leaves due a breakdown in the client/designer partnership. For whatever reason the design doesn’t get used you will feel bad that you now have what you might feel to be a gorgeous design lying unused whilst precious time was wasted creating something no one will be able to enjoy.
Continue reading “The Design Graveyard”
12Oct
I wasn’t planning on jumping on the bandwagon of hatred for the new GAP logo and thankfully this won’t be another attack on GAP or their designers for what appears to be some rather awful design choices. Instead I’m going to attack other designers for what occurred afterwards.
Opinions
As soon as the new logo was unveiled Twitter was awash with opinions as to how bad the new logo was, with few able to state why in 140 characters. But rather than retreat to their blogs to formulate good and balanced opinions they took to the likes of Dribbble to mock the new logo. This is a growing trend with the new iTunes and Myspace logos have undergone similar mockery.
Freedom of expression is all well and good but did it really help anyone? Did it help the decision makers at GAP understand why the design community felt Laird+Partners had let GAP down with the decisions they had made?
Continue reading “Designers F**ked up”